This year's Rotary Club of Melbourne Vocational Service Award 2018/19 will be presented to Edward Tudor, Executive Director of the Melbourne Indigenous Transition School. Edward came to the role in October 2014 with strong experience in corporate governance, project management and commercial legal advice. Edward epitomises the prerequisites for this Award recognising achievement of professional excellence (in the Awardees chosen profession), and outstanding contribution to the community through their vocation.
Edward was a solicitor with law firm King & Wood Mallesons from February 2011 until October 2014. He graduated from the University of Melbourne in 2010 with a combined Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and was one of KWM Australia’s first secondees to its Beijing office.
Edward is a member of the Anglicare Victoria Board Strategy Committee and served as a board member of the Old Scotch Collegians' Association for five years.
In 2016 Edward was awarded the Jack Brockhoff Foundation Churchill Fellowship to study organizations supporting the transition of young Indigenous people into mainstream educational opportunities across New Zealand, Canada, the USA and Lapland. In 2017 Edward was nominated for the New Corporation Pride of Australia Awards."
